Google Research 2025: Bolder breakthroughs, bigger impact

Google Research teams have invested over the years in advancing research and technology in a diverse range of strategic areas. We are working across time horizons, from bold moonshots and curiosity-driven transformative research where we explore the art of the possible, to innovation and applied research with accelerated impact. The Magic Cycle of research is accelerating — we’re driving research breakthroughs and translating them into real-world solutions, with impact on products, science and society, in close collaboration with many teams across Google and global partners.

This was quite a year! Our foundational AI breakthroughs helped make generative models more efficient, factual, multilingual, and multi-cultural, and we introduced generative UI. We advanced new architectures and algorithmic research and pioneered AI tools and agentic models that help accelerate scientific discovery. We achieved quantum breakthroughs that bring us closer to real-world applications of quantum computing; advanced research on Earth sciences to enable a level of planetary understanding never before possible; drove forward scientific domains including genomics, biology and neuroscience; and made headway on societal priorities like climate resilience, health and education.

Advancing generative models to be more efficient, factual, multilingual and multi-cultural

To help fuel this era of rapid innovation, we’re investing in efficiency, making Google products more cost and energy efficient, and setting the bar for the industry. We continue to develop new approaches based on speculative decoding, such as block verification, to further accelerate efficiency gains. At the other end of the infrastructure stack, LAVA is a new scheduling algorithm that continuously re-predicts the lifespans of tasks on virtual machines. It is designed to optimize resource efficiency in large cloud data centers, without sacrificing reliability.